I love Ellemeno and have submitted quite a few stories there the last few years. I understand everything you’re saying completely. The Boost program frustrates many of us because good stories we write or nominate are routinely turned down with no explanation. I’ve been a writer and/or editor since the 1980s. I’ve been the editor of a daily newspaper. I have some idea what I’m doing, but I can see no rhyme or reason for which stories are Boosted and which are not. It’s dispiriting when something that should be worthy is rejected — and while it’s reasonable to expect that to happen sometimes, it now happens routinely. More transparency would help a lot.